Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

- Gillis, Dobie

Best Quotes about Work

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

10.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

11.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

12.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

13.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

14.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

15.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

16.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

17.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

20.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

21.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

23.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

24.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

25.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

26.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

27.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

28.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

29.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

30.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

31.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

32.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

33.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

35.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

36.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

37.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

38.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

39.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

40.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

41.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

42.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

43.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

44.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

45.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

47.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

48.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

49.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

50.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.